Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do. — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations. — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems. — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do. — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging. — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
The multiplier effect is a major feature of networks and flows. It arises regardless of the particular nature of the resource, be it goods,… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art,… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations. — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations. — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions. — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
Unwrapping occurs when the "solution" is explicitly built into the program from the start. — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested. — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new discipline of… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
From the point of view of physics, it is a miracle that [seven million New Yorkers are fed each day] without any control mechanism… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions. — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
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